FREMONT — Two Oakland men were charged Thursday with a pair of felonies each after they broke into a home and held a 23-year-old woman against her will as they tried to steal items from her home, Union City police said.

Sou Hang Saephan, 30, and Sowchow Saechao, 20, were charged at the Fremont Hall of Justice with first-degree residential robbery and false imprisonment. Saephan was ordered held at Santa Rita county jail in Dublin in lieu of $55,000 bail, and Saechao in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Both are expected to return to court today to possibly enter a plea.

The arraignment came two days after police and a witness told The Argus that two men parked their SUV in front of a Feldspar Court home about a half-mile north of Contempo Park in Union City on Tuesday morning and then knocked on the door and rang the doorbell for several minutes.

When no one answered, the men moved the van down the street, returned to the residence and jumped over a fence to get into the backyard, police say.

Police said the men then went into the home, confronted the 23-year-old victim in her bedroom and threw her cell phone into a nearby fish tank so that she could not call for help.

Thanks to the watchful eye of a witness, who is part of a newly formed neighborhood watch program in the area, police immediately learned of the incident and set up a perimeter around the home.

Police used a Taser to subdue one man as he exited the home and then arrested the other inside.

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